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Third chapter «Music and art»

Humans, being backward, are still unable to express themselves in one common language. Until this human aspiration is realized, which seems impossible, all expressions of joy and sorrow, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, comfort and distress, annihilation and immortality, love and hate, as well as expressions of colours, feelings, tastes and disposition, shall all be expressed in the language spoken spontaneously by each person. Behaviour will result from the reaction to the sense that the language creates in the speaker’s mind. To learn one language, whatever this language is, is not the solution at present. This problem shall remain unresolved until the process of unifying languages runs its course through time, provided that the hereditary factor loses its effect on subsequent generations. Ancestral and parental feelings, tastes and dispositions, meld the feelings, tastes and dispositions of children and grandchildren. If those ancestors spoke several languages to express themselves, and on the contrary their children spoke only one language to express themselves, their offspring would not necessarily share the same tastes even though they speak a common language. The unification of taste is only achieved when the new language melds together the tastes and feelings inherited from one generation to another. If a community of people wears white on a mournful occasion and another dresses in black, then each community develops particular attitudes towards these colours; one community would like white and dislike black and the other like black and dislike white. Moreover, this attitude leaves a physical effect on the cells as well as on the genes in the body. This adaptation will be transmitted by inheritance, and the heir would come to dislike the colour disliked by his parents, as a result of inheriting their feelings. Consequently people only relate to their own arts and heritage. Due to the factor of heredity, this feeling of harmony eludes them when they come into contact with the arts of others who differ in heritage and yet speak a single common language. Such a difference emerges among communities of one people, even if only on a small scale. Learning one language is not the problem, and understanding the arts of others as result of learning their language is not the problem either. The problem lies in the impossibility of genuine mental adaptation to another people’s language. This shall remain impossible until the time when traces of heredity vanish from the body of the human being. Mankind is still backward because humans do not yet communicate in one inherited common language. It is only a matter of time before we reach this goal, unless civilization should suffer a relapse.

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